The husband of a Congress MLA in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district was arrested on Saturday after he surrendered before the police in an SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities case for threatening a truck driver in December, police said.
Chandu Sahu, husband of Khujji MLA Chhanni Sahu, was arrested after he turned himself in before the police here on Saturday afternoon, Rajnandgaon Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh said.
He was produced in a court this which sent him to judicial custody.
On December 8, an FIR was registered against Chandu Sahu under the Indian Penal Code and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on the complaint of the driver, Beersingh Uikey, the officer said.
As per the FIR, Chandu Sahu threatened Uikey with involvement in sand mining despite the driver possessing a royalty permit for mineral transportation.
Chandu Sahu had said the case was registered against him by the driver at the behest of the sand mafia.
Before her husband turned himself in before police, the Congress MLA told reporters that he was being implicated in a false case.